Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-02

Three carloads of sheep from Ballinger
passed through the city yesterday, en-
route to Chicago.
r E. Maddox & ca. recently shipped
drove of Poland China hogs to East
Texas and 9 high grade Pclled Angus
bull TO Sou:h Texss.
Mr.. A. S. Nicholson of Fort Worth goes
ND the Fort Worth and Denver this morn
ing and expects to make several Gales up
that way before he returns.
Mr.. r. Collins of Mckinney, was in
Fort Worth yesterday looking for cattle.
He says he will feed altogether this year
about 200 head, of which he already has
secured l25.
Fifteen carloads of cattle off the Santa
Fe from Valera, and thirty three cars from
Colorado City were handed at the Union
stockysrds Yesterday. The complaints
about the scarcity of cars are in no degree
abated, but the oficials say that every
effort IS being made to keep up with the
demand.
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A man from Kansas imported q carload
of blooded horses and cattle into Lips
comb county, Texas, recently, and the
Canadian Crescent considers the fact q
straw showing it to be the manifest
destiny of all rhst section of country to
be the home of the best stock to be found
anywhere.
Local butchers say the stock that has
been placed on the market here for local
consumption the past fail has been OF ar
extra good quality generally. The cold
rain of four days ago has driven the cattle
some and they have lost a little flesh late
~ but not SO much as to materially affect
the local supply.
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StOckmen spoken 10 last evening were
of the opinion that the present rain would
be beneficial to stock on the range if the
weather did not turn cold The rain al
any rate, they say, will assure good
range for next spring. The ground will
be better seasoned in the spring than it
has been for many years past.
The demand for feeding cattle, which
continues with undated vigor, shows
more convincinglY tnsn anything else
what the views of stockme1 are regarding
the prices beef cattle will bring in the
spring. The people who are buying cattle
this fall are those who will not dispose OF
them till prices 10 go up.
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The finest sheep dip yet discovered is
the hot waters of Ola Caliente springs
Just over the border Of Colorado in New
Mexico, below ConejOs. a sheep dipped
in the steaming warm water, IS it gurgles
from the boiling spring, will cure the
scab in the twinkling OF an eye. There is
nothing that equals it for the purpose that
has ever yet been discovered San An
gel0 Standard.
The Clarendon has q congoIatory piece
Of news for the sheepmen who have been
holding the clips for SO many months fol-
reasonable markets. 1t says our sheep
men need not be uneasy as to oVerstock
ing the wool market. The records at the
several ports Of entry show that for the
last twelve months ending August 81
about ia 900, 900 pounds of wool were
imported. We used this in addition to
our home woods.
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Some papers have gone to moralizing
over the end of the famous Texas cattle
trail. John M. StahI believes that we
should all rejoice at this evidence of the
decadence OF the ranch cattle growing
that has been productive of so much
cruelty to the animals, has reduced mate
rally the profits of farmers who are not
only American land-holders but land own
ers and American citizens, and has been
one Of the greatest obstacles in the way
of the widespread use of the best animals
The rspid progress of settlement shows
that soon ranchlng will be driven to the
small valleys among the sand hills; and
that cowboys will be as great curiositles,
by the close Of the century, as Buffalo Bill
is to the Hinglish, you know. At this
prospect no one need be sad.